Melania Trump is claimed to have spent less than two weeks at the White House since her husband was inaugurated.
The first lady, who has been notably absent from Washington during Donald Trump’s second term, has spent fewer than 14 days at the residence since he took office 108 days ago, according to the New York Times.
Mrs Trump, 55, instead spends much of her time in Trump tower in Manhattan or in Florida, out of the prying eyes of the public in Mar-a-Lago.
“We haven’t seen such a low-profile first lady since Bess Truman,” Katherine Jellison, a historian of first ladies told the paper.
Mrs Trump has made just a handful of public appearances since January.
Asked on Fox News where she planned to spend most of her time this term, she said: “I will be in the White House and, you know, when I need to be in New York, I will be in New York. When I need to be in Palm Beach, I will be in Palm Beach. But my first priority is, you know, to be a mom, to be a first lady, to be a wife.
“And once we are in on Jan 20, you serve the country.”
After travelling to Italy for the Pope’s funeral and making a brief appearance at the White House Easter egg roll, Mrs Trump will return in front of the cameras to unveil a postage stamp honouring former first lady Barbara Bush on Thursday.
Administration officials say she is at the White House more often than the public knows.
“She loves the White House,” Paolo Zampolli, a former modelling agent from Italy who first spotted her in Milan in the 1990s, told the New York Times, insisting “she loves the role of serving as our first lady”.
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